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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Acland , John Dyke , 1750 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Balfour , Nisbet , 1743 -1823 (search)
Balfour, Nisbet, 1743-1823
British military officer; born in Dunbog, Scotland.
in 1743.
He was a son of an auctioneer and bookseller in Edinburgh; entered the British army as an ensign in 1761; commanded a company in 1770; was wounded at the battle of Bunker Hill in June, 1775.
and again in the battle of Long Island.
He was sent home with despatches after the capture of New York in 1776, and was brevetted major in November following.
Served under Lord Cornwallis in Pennsylvania and the Carolinas; and was in command at Charleston in 1781, when he reluctantly obeyed the command of Lord Rawdon to execute Isaac Hayne (q. v.). He was then lieutenant-colonel.
He was made colonel and aide-de-camp to his king in 1782.
a major-general in 1793. lieutenant-general in 1798, and general in 1803.
He died in Dunbog, Oct. 10, 1823.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bartlett , Josiah , 1729 - (search)
Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-
A signer of the Declaration of Independence; born in Amesbury, Mass., Nov. 21, 1729; educated in a common school and taught the science of medicine by a practitioner in his native town, he began practice in Kingston, N. H., in 1750, and soon became eminent.
He was a member of the New Hampshire legislature from 1705 until the breaking out of the War of the Revolution.
In 1770 he was appointed by the royal governor lieutenant-colonel of the militia, but on account of his patriotic tendencies he was deprived of the office in 1775.
He was a member of the committee of safety, upon whom for a time devolved the whole executive power of the of government of the State.
A delegate to Congress in 1775-76, he was the first to give his vote for the Declaration of Independence, and its first signer after the President of Congress.
He was with Stark in the Bennington campaign (see Bennington, battle of), in 1777.
as agent of the State to provide medicine and other n
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Biddle , Nicholas , 1750 - (search)
Biddle, Nicholas, 1750-
Naval officer; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 10, 1750; made
Medal presented to James Biddle by Congress. a voyage to Quebec before he was fourteen years of age. In a voyage to the West Indies he was cast away on an uninhabited island, where he remained two months.
He entered the British navy in 1770.
While a midshipman, he absconded, and became a sailor before the mast in the Carcass, in the exploring expedition of Captain Phipps in which Horatio Nelson served.
Returning to Philadelphia after the commencement of the Revolution, he was appointed to the command of the brig Andrea Doria, under Commodore Hopkins.
In 1776 he captured two transports from Scotland, with 400 Highland troops bound for America.
In February, 1777, he sailed from Philadelphia in the frigate Randolph, and soon carried four valuable prizes into Charleston.
Then he cruised in the West India waters with a small squadron; and in an action with a British 64-gun ship, March 7, 1778
Brown University,
A coeducational institution; originally established under the auspices of the Baptist Church in Warren, R. I., in 1764; and incorporated under the title of Rhode Island College.
In 1770 the institution was removed to Providence where it has since remained, and in 1804 its name was changed to Brown University in recognition of the liberality of Nicholas Brown (q. v.). In 1900 the university reported seventy-five professors and instructors; 886 students in all departments; two fellowships; 100 scholarships; 5,260 graduates; 105,000 bound volumes and 35,000 pamphlets in the library; scientific apparatus valued at $340,000; ground and buildings valued at $1,177,967; productive funds aggregating $1,297,227; and total income for the year $176,923. At the 132d commencement exercises, June 20, 1900, the president announced that cash and pledges had been received within the year amounting to $1,096,106 for the new endowment fund.
On June 3, 1899, the Rev. William H. P.
Carroll, John 1735-
Clergyman; born in
John Carroll. Upper Marlboro, Md., Jan. 8, 1735; was educated at St. Omer's, Liege, and Bruges; ordained a priest in 1769, and entered the order of Jesuits soon afterwards.
He travelled through Europe with young Lord Staunton in 1770 as private tutor, and in 1773 became a professor in the college at Bruges.
In 1775 he returned to Maryland, and the next year, by desire of Congress, he accompanied a committee of that body on a mission to Canada.
That committee was composed of Dr. Franklin, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, and Samuel Chase.
He was appointed the papal vicargeneral for the United States in 1786, and made Baltimore his fixed residence.
In 1790 he was consecrated the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
He founded St. Mary's College in 1791, and in 1804 obtained a charter for Baltimore College.
Liberal in his views, he maintained the friendship of all Protestant sects.
A few years before his death, in Georgetow
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Caswell , Richard 1729 -1789 (search)
Caswell, Richard 1729-1789
Military officer; born in Maryland, Aug. 3, 1729: went to North Carolina in 1746, and practised law there, serving in the Assembly from 1754 to 1771, and being speaker in 1770.
In the battle of the Allamance he commanded Tryon's right wing, but soon afterwards identified himself with the cause of the patriots, and was a member of the Continental Congress (1774-75). For three years he was president of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, and was governor of the State from 1777 to 1779.
In February, 1776, he was in command of the patriot troops in the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, and received the thanks of Congress and the commission of majorgeneral for the victory there achieved.
He led the State troops in the battle near Camden (August, 1780); and was controller-general in 1782.
He was again governor in 1784-86; and a member of the convention that framed the national Constitution.
While presiding as speaker in the North Carolina Assembly he
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Clark , William 1770 -1838 (search)
Clark, William 1770-1838
Military officer; born in Virginia, Aug. 1, 1770; removed to what is now Louisville, Ky., in 1784.
He was appointed an ensign in the army in 1788; promoted lieutenant of infantry in 1792; and appointed a member of Captain Lewis's expedition to the mouth of the Columbia River in 1804.
The success of the expedition was largely due to his knowledge of Indian habits.
Afterwards he was made brigadier-general for the Territory of upper Louisiana; in 1813-21 was governor of the Mississippi Territory; and in 1822-38 superintendent of Indian affairs in St. Louis.
He died in St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 1, 1838.
See Clark, George Rogers; Lewis, Meriwether.